ISSN:
1399-0047
Source:
Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Geosciences
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Physics
Notes:
Carbonic anhydrases are zinc metalloenzymes that fall into three distinct evolutionary and structural classes, α, β and γ. Although α-class enzymes, particularly mammalian carbonic anhydrase II, have been the subject of extensive structural studies, for the β class, consisting of a wide variety of prokaryotic and plant chloroplast carbonic anhydrases, the structural data is quite limited. A member of the β class from E. coli (CynT2) has been crystallized in native and selenomethionine-labelled forms and multiwavelength anomalous dispersion techniques have been applied in order to determine the positions of anomalous scatterers. The resulting phase information is sufficient to produce an interpretable electron-density map. A crystal structure for CynT2 would contribute significantly to the emerging structural knowledge of a biologically important class of enzymes that perform critical functions in carbon fixation and prokaryotic metabolism.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0907444900008519
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